Solder-placing machine.



B. HAUSHBER. SOLDER. PLAGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17, 1913.

B. HAUSHEER. SOLDER.v PLAGING MAGHINE.A

I VAPIFLIOA'IION FILED JAN. 17,1913. 1, 1 04,261. Patented July 21, 1914.

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SOLDER PLAGING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN.17, 1913.

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SOLDER PLAGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17, 191s.

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BERNARD HAUSHEER, OF NORWICI-I, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB TO BORDENS CONDENSED MILK COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF JERSEY.

SOLDER-PLACING MACHINE.

T0 all Iwhom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNARD Hansi-mnu, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Norwich, in the county of Chenango and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Solder- Placing Machines, of which the following is a specification. 1

My present invention relates more particularly to that class of cap-soldering machines employed to solder caps to cans previously lled with merchandise as forexample condensed milk. These caps are circular to t the corresponding circularly flanged openings of said cans, preservation of the latters contents being dependent on proper application of solder to, and its retention when cold, in all parts of the resulting joint. The class of said machines to `which my present invention particularly relates is that in which pluralities, or groups, of such cans are simultaneously moved, to and from, and alined and centered relatively to, pluralities of alike devices operating respectively to automatically place caps upon said cans, apply solder and flux to their said joints, and then hot-iron them until hermetically seamed, a type of such machines being disclosed in U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,030,300, granted me June 25, 1912. My researches have now demonstrated that a superiorly eective and economical method of soldering said joints comprises preliminary application of the solder thereto while ccld, in shape and quantity proportioned to lit requirements of the resulting seam, as, for example, in the forni of a preliminarily produced ring of solder. To cover this method I filed on July 27, 1912, my pending application for patent designated as Serial No. 711,775, and to cover means foi` producing such rings I filed on May 14, 1912, my pending application designated as Serial No. 697,139.

The objects of my present invention comprise provision of means whereby such rings may be automatically, simultaneously, and accurately placed upon such joints of such pluralities, or groups, of cans, thereby not only economizing in solder, since the rings are proportioned to supply approximately no more than required for an air-tight seam, but also diminishing the time and skill previously required for proper soldering.

I attain the foregoing, and other, objects Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 17, 1913.

Patented July 21, 1914. Serial No. 742,579.

of my invention by the novel mechanisms, and combinations of elements, hereinafter described and claimed, the same being illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- 60 Figure 1 is a more or less diagrammatic side elevation of an organized machine, comprising not only my present solder-placing devices, but also, located in advance thereof, cap-placing devices, and, in rear thereof, solder-ironing devices, the latter being of the type disclosed in my pending application for patent led June 7, 1912, designated as Serial No. 702,154; Fig. 2 is a plan View, partly in section, of the machine of Fig. 1, said section being taken on the line a-a of the latter; Fig. 3 is a side elevation, on enlarged scale, of my solder-placing devices proper; Fig.` 4 is a verticalcross-section of Fig. 3 taken on the dotted line 5 6 of the 75 latter and seen in the direction of the arrow intersecting said line; Fig. 5 is a plan of Fig. 4, partly in section, said section being taken on the line 0 0 of Fig. l; Fig. 6 is a detail cross-sectional view, on enlarged scale, taken on the line cZ-Z of Fig. 5, viewed in the direction of the arrow intersecting said line, the same showing more fully my slide-plate; Fig. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view of Fig. 6, taken on the dotted line c-e of said gure, and showing particularly the brackets for holding the lower magazines; Fig. 8 is a vertical central crosssectional view, on still more enlarged scale,

of details comprising a can, a cap, a solder ring and other parts, including said slideplate; Fig. 9 is a vertical cross-sectional view of details comprising my ring maga- Zines, upper ring-receiving tubes and their supports, my slide-plate, etc. Fig. 10 is a 95 perspective view, on enlarged scale, of one of the solder rings; Fig. 11 is a central,

vertical, sectional view of a can top, a cap,

a'solder ring, and a soldering-iron device, showing the relation of the latter to the ring during soldering; Fig. 12 is a plan view of details to show more clearly the means whereby the ring-magazines are supported. Fig. 18 is a central vertical section of one of my cylindrical, or tubular, magazines on a scale enlarged so as to show more clearly, than in Fig. 9, the 'edge bevels.

In Figs. 1 and 2 I have, for the better understanding` of my present improvements and their preferred application, shown diagraininatically one type of the aforesaid machines by which like cans are automatically and simultaneously, in groups, first forwarded to a group of like cap-placing devices A; next centered and held relatively thereto during operation thereofl as per my said Letters Patent No. 1,030,300; next further forwarded, and positioned, relatively to a group ot like solder-placing devices B embodying my present improvements; and thence further forwarded, etc., to a group of like sol der-ironing devices C of the type disclosed in my said application, Serial No. 702,154. Other devices might be employed for placing the caps and ironing the solder, thel two which operations are independent of my present solder-placing improvements, except in so far as the latter require, as a prerequisite, proper placing of the caps over the openings of the cans, and the solder when placed as per my present improvements does not seal until after it has been heated and ironed in place. But the aforesaid sequence of operations required to properly seal simultancously the aforesaid pluralities or groups of cans cannot be performed in the one machine with as few manual operations except by aid and co-action of my can-forwarding and can-centering devices which are therefore shown and described to the end that my present invention may be better understood in its preferred method of application.

The cans, 1, are, as shown, cylindrical and of like dimensions, the top of each containing a therewith concentric round opening, la, the edge of which is provided with a circumferential flange, 1b, upon which is placed a spherical cap, 1C, (see Figs. 2, 8, 11). The machine as shown in its entirety in Figs. 1 and 2 is supported by a suitable frame comprising legs D, D, horizontally longitudinally extending supporting inembers E, E', and, mounted on latter, auxiliary supportingr elements F, G.

1n the machine shown in Figs. 1 and 2, as in the machine described in my said Letters Patent No. 1,030,300, the cans are forwarded through the machine; also, at intervals, stopped temporarily under the respective groups of operatingdevices A, B, C, and accuiately centered and held relatively thereto, by action, and coaction, of the following devices, vizz-My machine has, extending longitudinally therethrough, a runway, R, for the cans, bounded laterally, on each side, by parallel, lateral, alining` members, M, lil, and below by the endless con veyer hereinafter described, coperating with which and with other elements as hereinafter described are movable trays or carriers, 2, comprising a bottom, 2a, (shown by dotted lines in Figs. 3 and 4), a front member 2b, (Fig. 2), side members, 2C, and a transverse tail-board, or rear member, 2,

(Figs. 2, 3 and 4), for a specific purpose hereinafter described; isaid carrier, as a whole, being` dimensioned and adapted to carry loosely thereon a group of similarly i shaped, or like, cylindrical cans, z'. c; the cathereto and to each other.

'sprocket-chains, 3, movably supported on I sprocket-wheels e, e', 41a, 4L, and underneath ways, as, for example, G, (Figs. 3 and 4f).

Means are provided to impart to said con veyer continuousmotion in parallelism with jsaid runway. i. c, the chains 3 are driven `iby the sprocket-wheels et, located near the delivery end of the machine.

Sprocket wheels 4E, il, are rotated by gear 5 (Fig. 2), interineshed with pinion G, rotated by sprocket wheel sprocket-wheel S, through sprocket-chain 0. )Wheel 8 is operatively connected, in any con- 7, another rotated by ivcnient manner, as per sprocket-chain S for example, with the main power shaft of l the machine not shown. The cans, l, constitute, in this instance, agroup of even numbei, e'. e. sixteen. 1t will' be understood that they have, prior to insertion into the inachine, been filled with merchandise, as for example condensed milk, requiring for its preservation hermetic sealing. The aforesaid trays or can-carriers 2 loosely ride on the chains 3 constituting` the endless conveyer, z. c. are supported and held thereon by gravity and friction only. Laterally bound ing the can-runway are said parallel, alin- Iing, members, or rails, M, (Figs. 2 and 4),

mounted upon angle-irons m supported on elements G, G, etc., of the frame of the mau chine. Said lateral members are supported, and disposed, suliicient-ly above the conveyer chains 3 to clear the trays, or carriers, Q, and suiliciently proximate to the center of said runway to contact with some of the group of cans loosely carried on the floor of said carrier. Said lateral, alining, members are spaced-apart a distance equal to the sinn of the diameters of an aliquot number of said even-numbered group of like cans (Figs. 2 and 4), thus permitting some of the cans to be advanced and held abrezst of cach other in the runway. The centers of the finally operating parts of the devices constituting each of said groups A, B, C, are mutually spaced-apart a distance equal to the diameter of each of said cans, and the interspace between inner faces of said lateral members and vertical axes of said eenters theerto most proximate is equal to onehalf of said diameter. It follows that the said lateral alining members will, as the cans are carried through the runway, contacti with somecans and, co-acting` with saidt said runway of the machine in the path of said cans are a plurality of movable, non' mally closed, stops, 10, l1, 12, sequentiallyy disposed, asshown, to,in turn, contact with some of said cans and, coacting with said conveyer and said lateral members, crowd said group into positions` in equal-ranks, in

which centers of said cans will register, in? turn, with said centers of said operating del .he said stops are kept normally Vclosed by gravity in, and transverse, the upvices.

per part of the path of the cans in said runway, being however, like the said lateral alining members' M, located sufficiently above the conveyer chains 3 to clear, at all .times, the tops of the trays 2. It follows that y said stops'` contact with some of the cans and co-acting with saidconveyer and withsaid` alining members tend to crowd the cans contacted, and thus more or less the entire group, into the aforesaid positions'in which their centers will register with the said centers and axes of saidl operating devices. .afterthe stops have, as aforesaid, contacted with some of the cans, thereby checking the onward feed, or progression, 'of these through the runway, the aforesaid rear member 2 ofcarrier Q, disposed to contact withsome of the cans, comes into play, and .by so contacting therewith and coact'ing vwith said conveyor, with said lateral aiming members, and, in turn, with each of said stops, ultimately forces saidvgrcup of cans into the aforesaid required positions in which the center of each can is in exact register with the center of a finally operating part of one of said operating devices, whereupon said rear member, so co-acting, combines to hold said group in said positions until the particular stop then in coaction therewith is raised out of the said normal vposition in the path of the cans in said runway.

.It follows that however irregularly the cans may be placed, or afterward disturbed, in the carriers, or cn the conveyer, their progression throughthe machine operates to bring them in turn automatically, and inevitably, into required register with each rality of operating devices, in turn, by said rear members 2d of the. carriers 2. On the other hand it will be observed that no group of canscan at any time pass beyond its required position beneath any of said plurali- 4ties of operatingy devices until Areleased through said raising'of a stop; alsothat'v one or more groups of cans maybesimultaneously advanced in the runway while one Vor more groups are simultaneously manipulated byone or more of said pluralities of :operating devices, this being possible because ofthe continuous motion of the endless conveyer chains 3 on which the said carriers loosely ride, the chains constantly propelling each carrier until its .cans are clamped stationary between one of saidstops and said carriers said rear member 2d, after which, and until said stop is lifted to open the path of the cans in the runway as hereinafter described, said chains will slip onward under the bottom of said carrier, the while, by their frictionwith latter, constantly, imparting 'to said rear member 2d suiiicient pressure against the therewith` contacting Vcans tolhold, through co-action of said alining members and said stop, the entire group of cans in krequired register with the then superimposed group of loperating" devices during manipulation by latter and until said stop is lifted.

Any convenient means may be employed to so raise ysaid stops as to open the runway for passage of the cans. For example the stop 11 adjacent my hereinafter described solder-placing devices is, as diagrammaticallyy indicated in Fig. 1, raised by depressing the free end of a lever 11a whose oppositeJ end is pivoted on a-bracket carried by the base on which the machine rests, the said lever 1la being connected by a link 11b with a lever 11c connected by a link lldwith said stop, and said lever 11c being pivoted on a bracket depending from the frame member E of the machine.

Referring now particularly to my novel solder-placing devices, their function is to deposit oney of the aforesaid rings of cold solder simultaneously upon each can of the group treated, and to so deposit or place said ring that it shall overlie the said circular open seam between the can and the cap thereon previously placed lby the preceding group A of operating devices. A ring 13, such as referredy to is shown in perspective in Fig. 10, and its desired final position relatively to cap and can in Figs. 8 and 11. My said solder-placing devices include a vertically movable frame N comprising an upper plate 14; and a lower plate `15. The lower plate carries a plurality of like cylindrical magazines 16, adapted to contain and control, in independently movable relation thereto, each of a plurality of the aforesaid solder rings. See for Aexample Fig. 9."k rThe number of such magazines is equal to the number of cans to be simultaneously treated,'-in this instance sixteen. The plates 14;` and 15 are, as shown in Fig. 4, secured to posts 17, secured in turn to bars 18, carried by brackets 19, secured to vertically movable rods 20, slidably supported within the above referred to stationary parts of the machine, towit, the `members E, E, F, Gr, and also passing slidably through the horizontal bars 2 1 (Fig. 4;) carried by posts 21a, 21", carriedl by said member E (Fig. 3). The rods 20 are provided with rack-teeth 22 with which mesh gears 23 carried by a shaft 24: rotatably supported in brackets 25 carried by stationary elements E, E', of the machine (Figs. 3 and 4). The shaft 24k is rotated manually by means of a thereby carried handle 26.

rlhe tubular magazines 16 are, as shown in Fig. 9, detached tubular blocks loosely mounted in, and controlled against lateral movements by, supporting members 27 carried by the plate 15 (see also Figs. 7 and 12). The diameter of the internal bore, 16', of said blocks is a little greater than the external diameter of the rings 13 to insure easy passage of the latter therethroughby gravity. The magazines bear vertically upon, and are thus supported by, horizontally disposed,

Zand movable, slides 2S, there being in this instance four of the latter, z'. e. one for each transverse row of cans (see Fig. slides are mov-ably supported by the plate The 15 in therein countersunk guideways 15l (Fig. 7) and are slidably retained in the latter by thereby carried cross-bars 152:' (Figs. 5 and 6). The thickness of the slides approximates as nearly as possible the average diameter of the solder wire composing the rings.

.Each slide is perforated by a passage QS, four of the latter being provided in the p euent case, z'. c. one passage for each can int each transverse row. The diameters or apertures of said passages correspond with those of the bores of the magazines. The construcf tion is such that the centers of said pasi sages register with the centers of the bores of the magazines when the slides are in normal i position, and the vertical axes of said centers are spaced-apart a distance equal to the diameter of the cans. It will be observed, by reference to Fig. 4f, that the said axes are offset from the vertical central axes of the cans when the latter have been brought into required positions by co-action of the stop 1l., lateral guide-members M, rear member 2 of the tray, and chains 3, as hereinbefore described.

The plate 15 is perforated by circular passages 153, in this instance sixteen in number, i. e. one for each can. The plate is preferably provided with annular, depending, lugs 154 which serve to project said passages below the plate. The interior of these passages is slightly conical, their uppermostdiameter being greater than their lower diameter, which last is but slightly greater than that of said rings. The central vertical axes of said passages are spaced-apart a distance equal to the diameter of the cans, and the construction is such that when the cans have been brought into and are held in required stationary position by my forwarding, centering, and holding devices as aforesaid, the said aXes register with the central vertical axes of the cans, of the caps, and of the circular joints between them (see Figs. 3, 4L and 5).

Means are provided whereby the operator can move the slides simultaneously from their aforesaid normal positions in which their passages, or openings, register with the bores of the magazines, to positions in which said passages register with those of the plate 15. The slides 28 are connected together at one end thereof by a tie-bar 29 (Fig. 5) connected by a link 30 to a handlever 31 vibratably supported on a pivot 32 carried by a stud 32 carried by a collar 32 slidably mounted on al stationary part ofthe machine, in this instance the post 21 Fig. 3). The horizontal oscillations of the slides are limited by the stop-pins 33 carried by the plate 15 contacting with the ends of the slots 84 in the slides (Figs. 5 and G.)

l provide means to facilitate and regulate the charging of the solder rings into the magazines 1G whether the machine be then, or not, in operation. Referring to Fig. the upper plate 1st is provided with circular openings 14a registering concentrically with the bores of the magazines 16. Cylinders 35 of internal diameter substantially equal to that of said magazines are, in alinement with the latter, vertically adjustably sup ported in said openings 111CL in any convenient way, as, for example, as shown in Fig. 9 by insertion in annular split-flanges 36 carried by the plate 111 over which Hanges are sleeves 36 through which are threaded set screws 37 by turning which pressure is exerted on said flanges suflicient to cause them to bind the cylinders 35 firmly in desired position. A guide-rod 40 of preferably circular cross-section, and of less diameter than the interior of said rings is disposed to extend within, but without contacting, each magazine 16 and the thereto corresponding cylinder The guide-rods are movably retained in their said positions by pins l-1, 419., which are passable respectively into opposite, and mutually registering, ra-

dially disposed, perforations 43, 4.4, and 45,

either of them, the rods are barely, but quite, cleared by the slides.

The solder-rings are charged into the magazines as follows: The pins 41, 42, are

withdrawn, thus permitting the guide-rods of the upper pin 41. -The rods are then manipulated and raised so as to admit insertion therethrough of the upper pin 41l as shown in Fig. 9. Should this supply of rings prove insuflicient, and it be desired to addk thereto during opei'ation of the machine, this may be accomplished, owing to my aforesaid construction, by inserting the lower pins 42 through the rods as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 9. The upper pins 41 being then withdrawn, additional rings are inserted as before until their level rises to that of the perforations 43, 44, whereupon kthe pins 41 are returned to their normal position. The pins 42 being then withdrawn, the rings so added will, by gravity, drop finally into the magazines, and thus add to latters supply, without stopping the operation of the machine. By repeating these operations indefinitely the machine may be operated continuously without pausing to charge the magazines.

The operation Vof the machine vin its entirety is as follows z--The cans are placed by hand in the carriers, or trays, and the latter deposed on the endless conveyerchains 3 near the receiving end of the machine. Thence the trays are, by the chains, advanced until arrested by contact of the stop 10 with some of the cans, at which time the latter will have been automatically centered relatively to the cap-placing devices, group A, as previously described.` The capplacing devices having performed their functions, z'. e. placed a cap over each canopening, in the proper positoin as shown in Figs. v8 and 11, the stop 10 is raised by the operator, thus permitting the conveyerchains to forward the trays and their contained cans until again arrested by contact of the latter with the stop 11, by which time the cans will, as before, becentered, this time in alinement with the centers of the passages 153 in the plate 15, and there held until the stop-11 is raised. While the cans are so held the operator, by depressing the handle 26, lowers the plate 15 and its therewith connected elements until the annular lugs 154 rest upon the cans. The operator then actuates the lever 31 whereby the slides 28 are simultaneously moved from normal position, in which their passages 28 register with the centers of the magazines, to the position shown in Fig. 8 in which said passages register with tlie passages 153 in the plate 15. 1t follows that thereby a ring is carried from beneath each magazine to position, shownin dotted lines in Fig. 8, from which it falls by gravity, in the direction Aindicated by the arrow, through passage 153 in plate 15 and onto thek cap and can, in exactly its required final position as shown in full lines in Fig. 8. Therings are thus accurately placed upon all of the sixteen cans simultaneously by a single operation. This done, the operator actuates the handle 26 to raise the plate 15 and its therewith combined elements to normal position, thus releasing therefrom Jthe cans, raises the stop 11 suliciently to enable the tray and its contained cans to proceed to the next stop 12, drops the stop 11 to await the next tray of cans, and by manipulating the lever 31 in reverse direction restores the slides to normal position which are then immediately charged by gravity with another set of rings ready for the next tray ofcans.

1t goes without saying that a suitable flux must be added to the solder rings. This isdone in any convenient manner whether by hand, or by a group of such simultaneously flux-applying automatic devices as are indicated in Figs. 1 and 2 of my vaforesaid Letters PatentNo. 1,030,300, to patent which I have now pending divisional` application, Serial Number 697,138, filed May 14, 1912, or by treating the solder rings to a suitable liquid flux preliminarily to charging them into the magazines of my present machine. Such particular fluxing means 1 refrain vfrom describing herein, as being unnecessary to understanding of my herein-claimed invention, and it being obvious that the indispensable lux may be supplied in a variety of well known ways.

As particularly conducive to the success-y ful operation of my machine should be noted its following characteristics, viz:-

(a.) The magazines 16 are loosely held, t'. 6. are capable of laterally and vertically moving, at all times, suiiiciently to accommodate the ordinary, substantially-unavoidable, moderate departures from standard in shape and thickness of the rings, as, for example, if a ring resting on the plate 15 projects, in whole or in part, upwardly more than the thickness of the slide. In such cases the ring when impelled horizontally by the slide merely lifts, or sometimes also slightly rocks, the magazine sufficiently to permit the ring to pass from thereunder, and this without any prohibitory disturbance of the positions, and `subsequent behavior, of the then superimposed rings. To

this end it will be also noted that both the uppei' and the lower inner edges of the inagazincs are slightly beveled as shown in Fig. 9, and more clearly at 162 and 163 in Fig. 13. rl'lie support ot the magazines, by gravity only, upon the slides insures at all times the requisite close contact between these two elements of the machine. @n the Yother hand the magazines are free to rise to the extent, and whenever, required to avoid jamnung.

(7).) The guide rods Zl() are free to move to a more or less limited extent at all times and in all directions, the passages a7, 47, therethrough being, as indicated in Fig. 9, of somewhat greater diameter than that of the pins l1, ft2. The rods are thus relatively to the cylinders 35 and magazines 1G floating members adapted for limited universal motion therein, whereby the aforesaid dissimilarities in shape and thickness of rings are accommodated without risk of jamming, or stopping the gravity feed of the rings, either during operation of the machine or when inserting the rings thereinto.

(c.) The passages in the plate 15 are downwardly tapering as shown in Fig. 9.`

This makes allowance for any lost motion in the slides insuring the delivery of the rings from the latter into the passages and their guidance or delivery to exactly the positions y required.

After the solder rings have 1eeen placed in position as above described, the tray proceeds to the final group C of soldering devices, z'. 6. the soldering irons where the rings are melted and ironed, together with the flux, as required to make hermetic seals, the

said devices being preferably suoli as are disclosed in my said pending application,v

Serial No. 7 02,154 filed June 7, 1912.

not confined to exactly the relative shapes, sizes, proportions or combinations of its constituent elements as hereinbefore described and shown in the drawings, as these may be obviously varied more or less as may be prefn erable to suit the requirements oi convenience of any particular case. Certain of my novel elements or sub-combinations thereof may likewise be usefully employed without i aid of the remaining elements constituting the entire novel combination as shown in the drawings, and this without departing from my invention. Likewise my invention as so defined is not conlined to the placing otV solder rings specifically, or to the placing of 1. In a solder-placing machine having a` runway for the cans, disposed above said runway a transversely movable slide having a downwardly extending passage therethrough; disposed above and vertically-movable independently of said slide a magazine having a downwardly-delivering outlet normally registering with said passage; disposed beneath, and transversely-immovable relatively to said slide, a plate having a downwardlydelivering passage therethrough registrable with said passage in said slide; means to center a can in said runway with said passage in said plate; means to simultaneously lower said magazine, said slide, and said plate until stopped by said can; and means to move said slide transversely until its said passage registers with said passage in said plate.

2. ln a solder-placing machine having a runway for the cans, disposed above said runway a plurality of transversely-inovable slides each having a plurality of downwardly-extending passages therethrough; disposed above and vertically-movable independently oi said slides magazines equal in number to said passages and each having a downwardly-delivering outlet normally registering with one of said passages; disposed beneath and transversely immovable relatively to said slides a plate having therethrough a plurality of downwardly delivering passages respectively registrable with one of said passages in said slides; means to center each of a. plurality of cans in said runway with one of said passages in said plate; means to simultaneously lower said magazines, said slides and said plate until stopped by said cans and means to simultaneously move said slides transversely until each of their said passages registers with one of said passages in said plate.

3. ln a solder-placing machine having a l y runway for the cans, disposed above said It will be understood that my invention is runway a transversely-movable slide having a downwardly extending passage therethrough; disposed above and vertically-movable independently of said slide a cylindrical magazine having a downwardly-delivering, bevel-edged, outlet normally registering with said passage; disposed beneath and transversely-imniovable relatively to said slide a plate having a downwardly-deliveringpassage therethrough registrable with said passage in said slide; means to center aean in said runway with said passage in said plate; means to simultaneously lower said magazine, said slide, and said plate until stopped by said can; means to move said slide transversely until its said passage registers with said passage in said plate.

t. 1n a solder-placing machine having a runway for the cans, disposed above said runway a plurality of transversely-movable slides each having a plurality of downwardlyextending passages therethrough; disposed above and vertically-movable inde pendently of said slides cylindrical magazines equal in number to said passages and each having a downwardly-delivering, beveledged, outlet normally registering withone of said passages; disposed beneath and transversely-immovable relatively to said slides a plate having therethrough a plurality of downwardly-delivering passages respectively registrable with one of said passages in said slides; means to center each of a plurality of cans in said runway with one of said passages in said slides; means to simultaneously lower said magazines, said slides and said plate until stopped by said cans; and means to simultaneously move said slides transversely until each of their said passages registers with one of said passages in said plate.

5. In a machine of the class described a magazine having therethrough a passage terminating in a downwardly presented opening; disposed within and above said passage a rod extending normally to said opening; means disposed above said passage to suspend said rod movably in every direction; beneath said'opening a slide having therethrough a passage normally in alinement with said passage; and means to move said slide transversely of said passage.

6. In a machine of the class described a horizontally movable slide having a downwardly-extending passage therethrough, disposed above said slide a magazine having a downwardly-delivering outlet registering with said passage when said slide is in normal position, disposed partly within and extending above said magazine a rod movable relatively thereto, means disposed above said magazine to suspend said rod in its said disposition, disposed beneath said slide a stationary member having a downwardlydelivering passage therethrough registrable with said passage in said slide, and means to move said slide from its said normal position until its said passage registers with said passage in said stationary member.

7 In a machine of the class described a horizontally movable slide having a downwardly-extending passage therethrough, disposed above said slide a magazine having' a downwardly-delivering outlet registering with said passage when said slide is in normal position, disposed partly within and extending above said magazine a rod movable relatively thereto, means disposedabove said magazine to suspendl said rod in its said disposition, disposed beneath said slide a stationary member having a downwardlydelivering passage therethrough registrable with said passage in said slide, means to move said slide from its said normal position until its said passage registers with said passage in said stationary member, and means to vertically move simultaneously said slide, said magazine, said rod, and

`the following elements, viz z-supported above said runway a vertically movable member comprising an even-numbered plurality of downwardly-delivering passages having' their centers equally spaced-apart; a carrier comprising a bottom adapted to loosely carry a group of like cans each of diameter equal to the interspace between said centers; under said runway an endless conveyer on which said carrier loosely rides; means to impart to said conveyer continuous motion in parallelism with said runway; on each side of said runway parallel lateral alining members spaced and disposed to contact with some of said cans and coacting with said conveyer to guide said group toward positions in which their centers register with said centers of said passages; transverse said runway in the path of said cans a movable normally closed stop disposed to contact with some of said cans and coacting with said conveyer and said lateral members to crowd said groups toward said positions; on said carrier a rear member disposed to contact with some of said cans and, coacting with said conveyer said lateral members and said stop, to ultimately force and hold said group stationary in said positions; means to simultaneously deliver solder into each of said passages while the cans are so held; and means to raise said stop out of the path of said cans in said runway.

10. In a can-manipulating machine having a runway for the cans the combination of the following elements, viz supported above saidr runway a vertically movable member comprising a plurality of downwardly-delivering passages having their centers equally spaced-apart; means to deliver to each of said passages simultaneously a predetermined like amount of solder; a carrier comprising a bottom adapted to loosely carry a group of as many like cans as there are passages, the diameter of each said can being equal to the interspace between said centers of said passages; below said runway an endless conveyer on which said carrier loosely rides; means to impart to said conveyer continuous motion in parallelism with said runway; on each side said runway parallel lateral alining members spaced-apart a distance equal Ito the sum ot' the said diameters or an aliquot part of the number oi said cans and disposed to Contact with some of said cans and coacting with said conveyer to guide said group toward positions in which their centers register with said centers of said passages; transverse said runway in the path of said cans a movable normally closed stop disposed to contact with some of said cans and coacting with said conveyer and said lateral members to Crowd said group toward said positions; on said carrier rear member disposed to contact with some of said cans and coacting with said conveyer said lateral members and said stop to ultimately force and hold said group stationary in said positions; and means to raise said stop out of the path of said cans in said runway.

11. ln a can-manipulating machine having a runway for the cans the combination of the following elements7 vim-supported above said runway a vertically movable plate, comprising a plurality of downwardly-delivering passages having their centers equally spaced-apart; slidably carried on and by said plate a slide having a plurality of downwaidly-extending passages therethrough, their centers spaced-apart the same as said centers of said plate; riding loosely on said slide a like plurality of therefrom detached movable magazines each having downwardy-delivering outlet normally disposed to register with one of said passages oiI said slide when the latter is in normal position; means independent of said slide to loosely and movably support said magazines in their said normal dispositions; means to move said slide from its said normal position until its said passages register with the passages in said plate; means to feed through said runway simultaneously as a group cans in number equal to the passages in said slide; means to adjust said cans in positions in which the center of eaeh. registers with. the center of one of said passages in said plate; and means to vertically move said plate and its therewith connected elcments.

12. In a machine of the class described, a magazine having therethrough a passage terminating in a downwardly presented opening; disposed within said passage a rod eX- tending normally to said opening; means disposed above said passage to hold said rod suspended movably in a plurality of directions; beneath said opening a slide having therethrough a passage normally in alinement with said passage in said magazine; beneath d slide a plate having therethrough a downwardly-delivering passage registrable with said passage in said slide; and means to move said slide 'from its said normal position until its passage registers with said passage in said plate.

BERNARD HAUSHEER. Witnesses RUTH C. GUs'mrsoN, L. E. ELDRIDGE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

lt is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,104,261, granted July 21, 1914, upon the application of Bernard Hausheer, of Norwich, New York, for an improvement in Solder-Placing Machines, errors appear in the printed specication requiring correction as follows: Page 7, line 12, for the word slides read plate;

page 8, line 5, for the Word or read of; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the` case in the Patent Oice.

Signed and sealed this 1st day of September, A. D., 1914. l

l R. F. WHITEHEAD,

[SEAL] Actz'ng Commissioner of Patents. 

